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China Southern Airlines will make Chongqing and Urumqi its main operation hubs in an effort to meet the challenge of domestic competitors, China Business News reported Friday.
Xiamen will steal the first show at the upcoming Shanghai World Expo as it will be the first city to open its pavilion ahead of the expo opening ceremony on May 1.
China has signed preliminary cooperation agreements with the State of California to help build high-speed rail lines in the West Coast state, as Beijing races to become a major exporter of bullet trains that could travel up to 215 miles an hour, the New York Times reported Thursday.
An imperial white jade seal fetched HK$95.86 million (US$12.23 million) on Thursday at a Hong Kong auction, smashing the world records for both white jade and imperial seal that ever went under the hammer.
The first China-developed 500-km/h maglev train was delivered in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province on Thursday, China News Service reported.
A government discipline watchdog group in South China's Guangzhou has cracked 356 transgressions in 2009 within its municipal jurisdiction, 79 of which involve grafts by top executives at state-owned enterprises, local daily Information Times reported Friday.
Tomb raider, He Hongyan, was sentenced to three years in prison and four years on probation for stealing dinosaur egg fossils by a court in Xixia county, "Home of the Dinosaur" in Central China's Henan province, Procuratorial Daily reported.
Migratory birds, including swans and wild geese, have been poisoned near a reservoir in Northeast China’s Liaoning province, and then sold to restaurants for food, the Shenyang Evening News reported Friday.
A man surnamed Zhang, around 50, has been dwelling in a small deserted cave near an expressway in Tongchuan, North China’s Shaanxi province, for five years, unwilling to reveal his identity to police, Huashang News reported.
In the first quarter of 2010, 109 companies got listed in China through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), taking up more than 41 percent of the 267 IPOs in the world, according to an Ernst & Young report.
For rent: a single bunk with a small bedside stand, squeezed between white-washed pasteboard walls with a wire mesh overhead, no window or washing room, not even any standing room. For less than 250 yuan ($37) per month, 25-year-old Zhang Qi moved in as its first tenant.
Chinese authorities have intensified their efforts to alleviate the persistent drought in Southwest China, secure drinking water for millions of rural people and mitigate damages caused by the catastrophe.
